still alive

[ironymaiden]

i'm busy, and mostly happy. things are very intense at work, which means that i a) don't have time to write lj posts from there and b) don't feel like staring at the computer when i get home.

highlights:

• scarlettina managed to get me off the ledge Friday with Wonderfalls, kitties, and chocolate/twix/butterfinger ice cream from Mix.


• ZOMG Quiltfest. i didn't shop much this year, just goggled at other people's work. highlights included the Q Quilt, fruits of the sea, and the man from UNCLE. photoset here.


• i ended up buying a flickr pro account because i couldn't stand to see the old pics disappearing as i topped 200 images. Quiltfest also led to my discovery of AutoStitch. i love your photo management tools, Canada!


• astonishingly good dinner before DeVotchKa at Teapot Vegetarian House. (all vegan. must take hgross.) like Cafe Flora, it's a destination where the vegetarian menu is a happy coincidence. they put Bamboo Garden to shame. it was wonderful to have dinner with L where i didn't feel like she got all the crappy food, and we riffed on how to make a savory adult PB&J with their thick, chunky peanut sauce.


• the concert was great, but the openers were horrid. i mostly liked feeling the floor flexing under the sold-out crowd at Neumo's, but i don't want to be there the night it breaks :)


• mimerki taught me that jam is not scary and i have jars that i at least stirred to prove it.


• on Monday late i got C from the airport! i made a wrong turn taking 99 down, but it it means that i finally bought a Thomas Guide.


• Tuesday i worked from home so that i could sleep in and have breakfast at Vera's with my husband. this helped with the suckage of my current project. a bit.


• we went to see the corpse blossom at the conservatory. photos here.


• butterflydrming got me to Ohana for the first time in about two years. i'm so sorry i stayed away. the food is quite good. when you pay $7.50 for a drink there, it doesn't come in a martini glass - it's roughly the size of my head. the company was grand. long live Sushi Night!


• C brought me all the OOTS books from GenCon :)

Comments

[mimerki.livejournal.com]

The stirring is an important part of making jam. There's washing, there's measuring and there's stirring. Eventually, there's pouring into little jars, but really it's the stirring that takes the time.

If you want to make jam again, I would be happy to let you do the whole thing and just be there to wipe jars and such for you.

*wanders off thinking about jam*

[scarlettina.livejournal.com]

Thank you, thank you, thank you for the corpse blossom pictures! I don't know if I'll be able to get to the conservatory so this was the next best thing. I only wish I could smell it! Do you know how long it will a) be at the conservatory and b) be blooming?

[ironymaiden]

it should have crumpled by now - the flower only lasts three days, and Tuesday was the middle day.

[scarlettina.livejournal.com]

Oh yeah! And thank you for the QuiltFest pictures. Better yet, thank you for the day that resulted in the Quiltfest pictures. I had a wonderful time.

[brainstormfront.livejournal.com]

Isn't Wonderfalls a fun little guilty pleasure? Milady Sarah and I just discovered it recently from the library and really enjoy its quirky sense of humor. No wonder the network twerps didn't know what to do with it....

By the by, I'm back on Netflix again, and found that you can get the pilot for Studio 60 (the new Aaron Sorkin show). We watched that the other night, and it's definitely something you and the Scarlettina might enjoy...

SES